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Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Battles Measles Epidemic

December 6, 2019 3:50 pm

Samoan authorities warned Friday that anti-vaccine propaganda would not be tolerated, after a social media campaigner was arrested for opposing a mass immunisation drive aimed at containing the Pacific nation’s deadly measles epidemic.

At least 63 people, mostly children, have died since the outbreak began in mid-October, with the crisis blamed on so-called “anti-vaxxers” convincing parents that immunisations were dangerous.

Samoa was on Friday enduring its second day of a lockdown as government and aid workers spread out across the nation of 200,000 people to vaccinate as many as possible.

But Communications Minister Afamasaga Rico Tupai said anti-vaxxers spreading …

Rohr Battles NFF Over ₦36m Debt

November 27, 2019 8:02 am

Coach Gernot Rohr has hired a French lawyer in a desperate bid to recover his outstanding bonuses and allowances from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The Super Eagles manager, in an interview he granted a foreign magazine, InsideWorldFootbal, claimed that he was being owed a total of $100,000 (about ₦36million) as bonuses and allowances.

He said he secured a lawyer to negotiate with the NFF on the debt owed him after he got frustrated in his effort to get paid.

“I preferred to get Jean-Jacques involved because it got to a stage that I didn’t want to be speaking to …

Popular church battles sit-tight spiritual leader

May 31, 2019 10:36 pm

A Popular church with headquarters in Lagos, which emphasises its African roots, is at daggers drawn with its spiritual leader for refusing to quit the position after surpassing the new mandatory retirement age set by the church.

Ironically, the clergyman was said to have been part of the body which some years ago took the decision that made it mandatory for the spiritual leader of the church to quit once he clocks the age set for retirement.

But he was said to have protested when he was …